Zyleth's POV - Cooler's Ship
I jolt up, immediately regretting it when a sharp, searing pain shot through my back.
"Fuck!" I groan, my left hand shooting towards my back as my right slammed against the metal nightstand beside the bed, my fist putting an indentation in the metal.
"Zyleth!"
Hearing my name being called from my left, I look and see Lila sitting on a chair next to the bed, leaning against it. On the covers, I could see that a wet spot had formed, most likely from drool.
Was she sleeping? How long was I out?
She reaches into her pocket and immediately crawls onto the bed, holding something in her fingers that I couldn't even see before she thrusted it towards my mouth.
"Here! Eat it!" She says as she tries to push whatever she had into my mouth.
"Can you-- Just--" I grab her wrist and pull her hand away from me, narrowing my eyes at her, "I'm not a damn child, woman! What is it?!"
I look at her hand and see that it was a Senzu Bean. My eye twitches at her for a brief second before I then snatch it from her fingers.
"Couldn't you have just given it to me like a normal person?" I asked, plopping the bean into my mouth and swallowing it.
Her gaze narrows at me and she turns her head away in a huff, crossing her arms and letting out an indignant, "Hmph!" as she did so.
"Teach me to worry about you..." She mutters.
You tried shoving your fingers down my throat, lady! Unless you're some type of a sexual deviant, my reaction was perfectly justifiable!
Letting it go, I let out a sigh and look around at my surroundings for the first time, seeing that it was somehow back in my quarters on Cooler's ship.
"How did I get here?" I asked.
Lila turned her head back towards me, he gaze softening and her arms uncrossing to rest at her sides.
"Cooler and I brought you back after you were injured." She says.
"Injured?" I asked as I looked down at myself, seeing the sheer amount of bandages that were wrapped around my body. "Broly did all this?"
"Not... exactly..." She replied.
I raise an eyebrow at her, to which she just awkwardly chuckles.
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General POV - Cooler Planet-555 - An Unspecified Time Ago
Zyleth looked down at the planet, his whited out eyes showing nothing but pure fury.
Just as he finished charging the large black Ki sphere over his head, ready to unleash it down upon the planet, a purple beam suddenly shot through the sphere and disintegrated it completely.
Zyleth's head snapped towards the direction of the beam, but he saw nothing. As soon as he was about to turn back around, another purple beam shot him right in back. The force of the beam caused Zyleth to fall towards the ground, crashing into the rocky terrain below face first.
After a few seconds, he tried to push himself up, but a voice suddenly sounded off behind him.
"You're still conscious?" Cooler asked, his Platinum Form shining bright in its full glory. "You should really learn when to quit."
Cooler raised his arm, a finger pointing at Zyleth's back as a purple light shined at the tip, "Then again... it is one of your best qualities..."
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Zyleth's POV - Present
I stood in front of a mirror as Lila finished her retelling, removing the bandages that had been wrapped around my body.
"That explains the overwhelming pain I felt from my seared flesh when I woke up..." I grumbled, my back still remembering the feeling even though it had already been healed. "What happened after that?"
"We got you and Broly back onto the ship." She replied. "They wanted to put you in this... tube thing..."
"A Medical Machine?" I asked.
"I don't know." She shook her head. "I didn't trust it, so I insisted on them letting me take you back to your room."
"How'd you manage that?" I turned to her and asked, all the bloodied bandages now lying on the floor.
"I managed to convince them that I had some... ability that would heal you faster." She responded.
I smirked a bit at that, "So... not technically a lie then?"
She looked up at me with a raised brow before her face dropped, realizing what I was getting at.
"Zyleth, if the next words out of your mouth are going to sound anything even remotely close to "I told you so", I swear, on the name of the almighty Zeno himself, I will--"
"Calm down." I said, putting up my hands in surrender as I gave her an innocent smile. "I would never do that to you. Do I look like someone who would do such a thing?"
Her eye twitched numerous times and I felt her power level start to slowly rise. Her hands unconsciously pushed down on the bed and something obviously gave way as I heard a loud crack.
"..."
"..."
"...You broke my bed..." I said nonchalantly.
She suddenly launched towards me with a hand wound back, promising pain, and I quickly sidestepped out of the way. We both then paused immediately, looking at each other with widened eyes.
That's never happened before...
I was never able to dodge her attacks, at least not in my base form...
"Did you power up again?!" She exclaimed before rushing at me.
I dodge her attempts to catch me, chuckling to myself as I revel in this joy that was only given to me by transforming.
She suddenly smirked and I narrow my eyes with confusion as to why until I suddenly feel my foot hit something and I tumble backward onto my broken bed.
Before I could get up, my wrists are pinned and Lila's face hovers above mine as she looks at me with an expression that caused a shiver to run down my back.
And not in a good way...
Before she can do whatever she was about to do, the door to my room opens and Cooler appears in the doorway.
"Lila, I believe--"
He stops dead in his tracks when he sees us in this... compromising position... all of us just staring at each other as silence took hold over the room.
Taking two steps back, Cooler steps back out into the hallway saying, "As you were..." before closing the door.
Lila and I are both left in this uncomfortable silence before I see her face slowly turning from her normal shade to a deep red.
Before I could find out first hand on whether or not that pigment was caused by anger or embarrassment, I give her a wry smile and let out a quick, "See ya" before using Kai Kai to teleport myself away.
"ZYYYYYLEEEEEEEETH!!!!!!!" Lila yelled out in fury, her voice piercing even the vacuum of space, which was previously only thought possible by members of the Saiyan race.
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On the other side of the door, both Cooler and I flinched as we heard Lila scream my name with the fury of a thousand Kais.
"So... Medical Bay...?" I turn to Cooler and ask.
"Medical Bay is good, gives us a chance to check in on the Onyx Squadron." He responds
We both quickly turned and walked down the hallway, heading towards the Medical Bay and away from the angry Kai that may, or may not be, destroying my room.
"So... You and--"
"Just drop it." I cut him off.
"I'm not judging, all I'm saying--"
"I really don't want you to say anything."
"All I'm saying is that I never expected you to be the submissive type." He says, finally getting it out.
I glance at him and see that on his face was a small, barely noticeable, but just as fucking irritating smirk that caused a vein in my forehead to nearly pop.
"I fucking hate you..."
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Cooler and I walk into the Medical Bay, seeing Broly, Raditz, and Vegeta all getting their vitals checked by the medical staff.
"Zyleth?" Vegeta says in confusion.
Him calling out my name caused the other two to look up and see me standing there beside Cooler, their eyes widening in surprise at the sight of me.
"I thought they were all in the Med Machines?" I asked Cooler.
"You were out for a while. They were all healed. Though Vegeta and Raditz weren't all that injured." He replied.
"Brother? What are you doing here?" Raditz spoke up and asked.
"I don't know. Why don't you ask Vegeta?" I replied, looking over towards the former Prince with a teasing smirk.
They both follow my gaze and look at Vegeta, whose face grows a bit annoyed at the sudden attention.
"What the-- How am I supposed to know why... he's..." He trailed off softly, the reason slowly dawning on him as he sees the look on my face. "...My mother called you, didn't she?"
"Got it in one." I tell him
Hearing my words, Vegeta quietly stews before eventually letting out a tired sigh, not having the energy to put up with my staggering amount of charisma at the current moment.
Or any moment really.
"Go ahead, laugh it up." He says.
Before I could respond, Cooler steps in between us and says, "As amusing as Zyleth's goading would be, I'm more interested in what happened to you all down on the planet's surface."
"I'll tell you what happened!" Raditz suddenly yelled as he pointed his finger towards Broly in an accusatory manner. "This asshole nearly killed us!"
Seeing Raditz's angry expression, Broly's eyes shifted towards the ground and he almost seemed to shrink into himself.
The guilt radiating from him was so immense that I almost thought that he had unleashed his energy again.
"That much is completely evident." Cooler replied in an uninterested tone. "What I want to know is the cause, not the outcome."
Vegeta and Raditz looked towards each other for a moment before looking back towards Broly, their gazes inquisitive.
"We don't know the cause" Vegeta replied.
"Yeah, all we know is that he suddenly attacked us for no reason." Raditz added.
Cooler look towards the tall Saiyan, his eyebrow raised as he waited for an explanation.
Broly didn't say anything, his eye fixed firmly in the ground. It was a strange sight, seeing Broly look so... defeated. Especially compared to the earlier berserker that nearly killed Vegeta and Raditz.
It seems that Broly's strength, his actual true strength was a lot higher than originally anticipated. Not by much, but enough to catch me off guard.
I always knew his natural potential was staggering. Couple that with the Legendary Super Saiyan transformation, and we have an unholy matrimony forged in the deepest pit of hell.
"Are they good to go?" I asked one of the doctors.
"I recommend rest, but other than that, they're fine." He responds.
I nod and look towards Vegeta and Raditz, motioning my head towards the door, "You heard the man. Go."
They turn and stare at me with confusion, but I give them both a glare which immediately shuts down whatever protest they were about to spew.
The two left, and I turn towards Cooler.
"Give us the room?"
He looks between Broly and I, his brow furrowing before giving a curt nod.
"I want a full report on what happened." He says before leaving the Med Bay.
With everyone else now gone, I kick a crate over next to Broly and sat down beside him. We sat there in silence for a moment, both of us waiting for the other to start before I eventually decide to bite the bullet.
"How've you been?" I asked him.
"Fine." He answered simply.
"Everything been alright since I've left?"
"Yes."
I nod and let the room fall into silence.
I know Broly. He's not going to talk about the situation until he's ready to, so I'll just have to wait until he is.
It's a little funny.
The Legendary Super Saiyan is the most soft spoken Saiyan I've ever met. A very stark difference between him and his berserker-ish personality whilst transformed.
"How have you been...?" He asks me.
I look and see that he was glancing at me with a bit of curiosity.
"Good. Traveled to some places. Met some... interesting people."
He nods and the room goes silent again. It stays that way for about five minutes before he mutters something softly under his breath.
"What was that?" I asked.
He stays quiet for a few seconds before he says, "I saw you die..."
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